In 1495, an epidemic of syphilis spread from Naples across Europe. (It probably reached Europe from the New World by way of Columbus’s ships.) The English called it the French pox. The French called it the English pox.
In 1495, an epidemic of syphilis spread from Naples across Europe. (It probably reached Europe from the New World by way of Columbus’s ships.) The English called it the French pox. The French called it the English pox.